X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS

X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS

Social network X is bringing its personal messaging service, dubbed X Chat, to a standalone app. The company on Monday said the preliminary beta of the X Chat app was being made obtainable to 1,000 customers by means of Apple’s TestFlight testing platform.

The beta program had reached full capability two hours after the announcement. According to an X submit by xAI product designer Michael Boswell, the company will increase the beta past the preliminary 1,000 customers “soon,” though he didn’t supply an ETA.

“For the past few months, we’ve been quietly building a standalone X Chat app for iOS,” Boswell wrote on X. “Use it. Break it. We want your feedback,” he said.

X Chat is X’s upgraded version of X’s present DM (direct messages) feature, which the company claims is end-to-end encrypted. Security specialists, however, have warned potential customers that the X Chat service is less safe than other encrypted messaging apps, like Signal, and shouldn’t be trusted. It’s not clear whether or not the company has addressed the safety community’s issues in the standalone app.

The introduction of the app represents a determined shift away from X proprietor Elon Musk’s earlier plan to make X an “everything app,” that would offer entry to messaging, funds, creator content, and more, centralizing all features of the service.

A handful of early testers have begun sharing screenshots of the app’s interface. One person said the beta version of the app had stylized the identify as xChat instead of X Chat, which might recommend a possible rebranding. Others started sharing screenshots from the app, like the login display screen, which has a starry background.

Early customers describe the app as a simple, smoother interface for utilizing X Chat in contrast with the X app. The current version of the app doesn’t embrace message requests, however Boswell says that’s being rebuilt now.

xAI’s Grok responded to questions about the new app on X, confirming other particulars, like the app’s age rating, which might be the same as X (17+ on the iOS App Store), and that chats would sync to the X app and the chat.x.com net app, which launched in December 2025.

The AI chatbot also famous that an Android version of the X Chat app was anticipated “very soon.”

I received entry to XChat beta!

Time to check the hell out of it and see if I can discover any bugs.

I’ll already say an ideal addition to X chat could be a XSpaces feature.

Turn it right into a discord like app with chat, photographs, video, and also live video/voice chat! pic.twitter.com/CQ6xfQ4JcB

— Overly Trev (@OverlyTrev) March 3, 2026

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